Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1980–83
The scan: sc-no223.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)
This text was corrected by hand against the scan: the strip at the foot of page 6, which the machine reading did not see; image taken from the scan and its lettering transcribed (18 Oct 2026). One of Cormac's Bad Taste strips: in dreadfully bad taste. Note: numbered by year: "#81/7"; printed across two pages of the same sheet — the title panel and the start of panel 2 at the foot of page 6, the rest at the foot of page 11 — so the middle of panel 2 is lost in the gutter.
The strip, panel by panel
1. IN DREADFULLY BAD TASTE by Cormac "#81/7".
2. "It's here, [folks!!] the new bo[...]red game from Warr[...]ingtons!!!" (the middle of the balloon is lost between the two pages)
3. "It's called 'The Collapse of British Imperialism'!"
4. (A uniformed officer holding a cane:) "How can you call it a game when the odds are .... Hey!! How does this game end?"
5. (Two grinning men:) "The game ends when the last capitalist is strangled with the guts of the last priest!"
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